Appleton expects Buzsaky to remain at Pompey until January after he inked his contract yesterday.

But he admits it may be hard to keep the one-time Porto man beyond that period.

‘We know it’s very unlikely that, come January, he will still be playing for this football club unless we can offer him a ridiculous amount of money, which is highly unlikely,’ said Appleton.

‘But there’s a lot of games between now and then.

‘If we have a player of his quality in between now and then that’s great. It also allows us the time to go out and find someone who is nearly at the same quality to replace him, for the money we can cope with paying at the time.’